‘We were treated worse than animals’: Mouldy food, isolation and starvation – life at an offshore processing centre
It was the most terrible place,’ Thanush says about the Manus Island Processing Facility in Papua New Guinea (Picture: Getty)
Studying the tall, wired fences that stood starkly around the perimeter of the shabby grey stacked buildings, Thanush Selvarasa had only one thought: prison.
However, the then 23-year-old had not committed any crime. He was a refugee who had fled his war-torn homeland of Sri Lanka, heading on a boat to Australia in a bid to find safety and freedom.
‘It...
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